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From: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Date: 01 Nov 2004 15:27:15 +0100
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>>>>> "Nikolai" == Nikolai Weibull <arch-users@pcppopper.org> writes:

Nikolai> I'm sure their intentions are good, yet one has to wonder
Nikolai> exactly why they wish to solve their issues with the current
Nikolai> interface to Arch in this manner.  nikolai

Several aspects of the current tla codebase are questionable, e.g:
  - the use of hackerlib instead of libc because Tom considers libc as
    broken
  - the option handling is far from well factored, per design decision
  - no abbreviations are allowed, per design decision
  - the use of a low-level language like C instead of higher level
    languages allowing much faster experiments
  - the use of pika-escaped filenames in tla output

I don't say those design choices are bad, only that they are
questionable -- people may want to redesign some of those aspects
because it better fits what they or their user expect.

  Sam
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Samuel Tardieu -- sam@rfc1149.net -- http://www.rfc1149.net/sam


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